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The black snow runs down from the rooftops; A red finger dips into your brow; Blue snow flakes sink into the empty room, They are a lovers’ dying mirrors. Heavy and torn to pieces the mind muses, Follows the shadow in the mirror of blue snow flakes, The cold smile of a deceased harlot. The evening’s wind weeps in the scent of carnations.

There's a poem between your legs, & off at the corners of your eyes. You can't see it but suspect, feel it warm, moist at the center, pulling the world inside you.

There's a poem in your hair: tangled today, & painful to comb through. One on your lips, too, like the taste of your last cigarette. There's a poem in your smile, except that you're not smiling now, not in the mood. There's another beside you like a ghost or pillow you hold with arms & thighs like an old lover as you try to sleep & forget yet lie awake, remembering.

There's a poem in your garbage. Perhaps you put it there, or haven't seen it yet. It smells like apricots, coffee, & blood, tastes of yesterday's brandy.

There's a poem in the space between your tongue & the nearest ear. It's invisibly silent like a radio wave: so, turn yourself on, listen close. It's everywhere at once, & you give it voice like a tree that falls in the woods.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." –Jack Nicholson

"Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is." –Barbara Bush (Former US First Lady — and you didn't think Barbara had a sense of humor)

"Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet." –Robin Williams

"Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself." –Roseanne

"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place." –Billy Crystal

"According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful." –Robert De Niro

"There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?" –Dustin Hoffman

"There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men think, I know what I'm doing. Just show me somebody naked." –Jerry Seinfeld

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house." –Rod Stewart

"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time." –Robin Williams